Bauhaus designers

The style of the bauhaus designers was formed by a lot of impressive characters, artists that worked as teachers in different sections of the bauhaus school. The workshops were focusing on specific materials as wood, metal or glass respectively imparting techniques to students as ceramics or skills learned in the bookbinder or the printing workshop. They were guided by masters of these times. Some of the bauhaus designers made their unforgettable name in the history of art though often these masters don´t get mentioned for their contribution to the education of Weimar students.

Among those teachers were men like Paul Klee,Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger, who had been engaged in the early days as a master for the furniture workshop. The most important figure in the first years has been Johannes Itten, an artist and teacher of art, who organized and structured the obligatory preliminary courses promoting a theory of forms.

Moreover later students from the bauhaus became famous designers. Marcel Breuer, who began his carrer with an apprenticeship in Weimar has become a worldwide respected designer of modern classic furniture, influenced by Gerry Rietveld, the creator of the zig zac chair, which you still can enjoy as a reproduction in our bauhaus furniture online store.

You will find reeditions referring to designers of the Bauhaus age in our big collection. It includes several masters from this period.